KARACHI, Dec 24: Though over a year has passed the employees of various departments working on the Quaid-i-Azam Mazar Management Project have been given honorariums on the advice of the chief executive, the KDA men involved in the project are yet to be paid.

The honorarium was announced by the chief executive last year on Dec 24, 2000 at the inauguration of Bagh-i-Quaid for those who took part in the project.

The KDA, Army’s Battalion 52 of the Corps 5, and the Quaid-i-Azam Mazar Management Board were basically assigned the task. The two organisations have been paid honorariums but about 100 KDA men are still waiting for payment despite the fact that they remained associated with the task for 14 years. The QMMB staff was given a month’s salary and the armymen were either sent for Umra or given other rewards.

The amount to be paid to the KDA staff comes to around Rs 700,000. Various objections were raised by the relevant agencies to avoid the payment, but all these had been cleared one by one by the KDA people. Yet the payment was not made.